Best 209 quotes in «opera quotes» category

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

I am a living soap opera.

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts.

I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.

I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television.

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.

I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.

In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.